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The strength of the ox, / The wit of the fox, / And the leveret's speed, -- / Full oft, to oppose / To their numerous foes, / The Rommany need.
Our horses they take, / Our waggons they break, / And ourselves they seize, / In their prisons to coop, / Where we pine and droop, / For want of breeze.
When the dead swallow / The fly shall follow / O'er Burra-panee, / Then we will forget / The wrongs we have met, / And forgiving be.